Technical Artist

Technical Artist

Location: Remote, UK

Days/week: Full Time

Salary: DOE

The Role

This is an amazing opportunity to be a Technical Artist at Oxford Medical Simulation.

In order to save patients’ lives doctors and nurses need the most realistic opportunities to practice (especially low frequency, high risk situations). Without you and your work they don’t get enough opportunity to make mistakes and learn in a safe environment, to keep their skills sharp and patients safe. Your work literally will save lives.

We’ve already set the bar very high and this is a great opportunity to come join the expanding team and keep raising the bar ever higher.

Are you ready for the challenge?

Who you are:

• You’re a Technical Artist with at least 3-5 years of experience, and have worked on a released project

• You’re humble - a team player and always learning

• You have a real eye for the details

• You love telling stories through environment

• You want to create art that reflects the real world in all its glory - from labor wards to back alleys and everything in between

• You want to work on a platform that is pushing the limits

• You want to use your skills for good

You have these essential skills:

• Strong experience with Unity, C#

• Expert Knowledge of Maya, Substance Painter, Substance Designer, ZBrush, Photoshop, etc.

• Strong knowledge of in game engine character animation and IK

• Expert texture creation skills

• Eye for lighting, shade, color and detail

• Advanced / expert knowledge of Unity

• Strong understanding of PBR lighting models and its interaction with materials

• Experience writing shaders for real-time rendering

• Blockout models

• Environment construction

• Assets creation

• Visual effects

• Lighting, Collision, Scripting, Shaders

• Production pipelines and project structure

• Experience with art and code versioning software

• R&D and tool production

Bonus points for any of the following

• Intermediate scripting experience with Python or Mel/Maya API.

• Knowledge of and experience with Final IK

• Knowledge of and experience in game optimization

• Knowledge of and experience with motion capture

• Experience with Perforce and Git

• Experience with Atlassian Tools, such as Jira and Confluence

• Experience managing a team of internal and external team members.

What you will be doing:

• Sculpt high-resolution and game-ready photoreal assets

• Rig props and characters to be able to take on real life range of motion

• Setup character IKs and Animation state machines in the game engine

• Setup environments in Unity, incl. lighting and shaders

• Environment concept and design - research and understand real world reference

• Optimise content through enhancing workflows and instructing other artists on asset creation best practices through all facets of production

• Integrate new technologies into art workflows.

• Oversee asset and meeting budget (memory and performance).

• Research and oversee the implementation of rendering techniques such as normal and specular maps, particle systems, and pixel shaders as well.

About Oxford Medical Simulation

OMS helps health systems, hospitals, medical and nursing schools deliver training and assessment better, cheaper, faster and at scale.

Our award-winning simulation platform is transforming the way healthcare and educational institutions train, assess and recruit healthcare professionals. By combining cutting edge 3D visualisation with artificial intelligence and leading educational theory, OMS delivers all of the benefits of physical simulation whilst delivering significant savings and improving patient care.

Founded in 2017 and commercially launching the award-winning OMS Platform in late 2018, OMS has experienced rapid growth with deployments spanning more than 100 Healthcare institutions around the world including the NHS, NYU, Oxford, Health Education England and the world’s #1 pediatric hospital.

OMS was named in the Top 50 Tech Companies 2019 by Business Cloud and was a finalist in the Global VR Awards 2019 & 2020. We have also been shortlisted for the Go Tech Awards 2021.

Oxford Medical Simulation is committed to equal treatment and opportunity in all aspects of recruitment, selection, and employment without regard to gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other category protected under the law. Oxford Medical Simulation is an equal opportunity employer; committed to a community of inclusion, and an environment free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.

Who we are

We are Skiers / Boarders, Runners, Rowers, Pilots, Magicians, Weavers, Photographers, Game heroes, Movie Buffs, and every other variety of people. We are hard working. We are passionate about what we do. We care about the work. We care about each other. We care about pushing the envelope and we care about using our working lives to make the world a better place.

We value these behaviours above all:

Sound like you?

Benefits

• 38 days annual leave (incl. Public holidays)

• Private Medical Insurance

• Flexible work environment - work from home/ remote first

• Pension: 3% company and 5% individual contribution

• £500 one-off office set up allowance

• High specification work laptop and oculus headset

• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave